For
amateur pianists who want to get better...

Piano players:
Would you like to learn to use some of the piano playing techniques the PROS
do? Are you willing to work on each technique month-by-month for an hour
each day for 36 months? If so, you have just found the key to unlocking some
of your
hidden talent...

Learn the Piano-Playing

SECRETS of the PROS

in detail -- Learn more in 60 minutes about a

single style or filler than most piano players

learn in a lifetime!

Listen to a warning from
Duane!

Dear Friend:

This is the most important letter you will ever read, as far as you musical learning isconcerned. And it is only for serious, dedicated people who really are willing to work hard to learn the secrets of the pros.
They are not for beginners, but they are not for advanced players either. They
are for the average piano player who just wants to improve their piano playing.

Will these Pro Secrets make you into a pro? No, of course not. But if you do
the daily drills, they will make any
piano player sound much fuller, smoother, more exciting, and sound more
professional.

Pro Secrets was
developed at Piano University for people who wanted to MASTER
the techniques the pros use, one technique per month for 3 years. So they are60 minute audio CD's that contain great detail -- the exact fingering, the precise inflection, the specific touch, the voicing, the pedaling -- of
various styles and fills and runs and intros and endings and chord substitutions that I put in my own piano playing.

Piano
University no longer exists, but you can still get the same
exact audio CD's used there.

So here it is:

The CD of the Month Club:

"
PRO SECRETS!"

Every month you'll drill with me on a 60 minute audio CD and a 4" by 8" summary card. Each
CD will feature just ONE technique -- a run, a filler, a style -- for example, the first month's
CD will deal with straddles -- a kind of broken chord filler used only by the very top pros -- most good piano players don't even know they exist, let alone know how to use them. I will spend one solid hour on straddles alone, and explain in infinite detail and demonstrate all the aspects and applications of that ONE style.

This is going to be hard work, but fun. I'll be like a tough coach who is training a serious athlete with potential. I'll drill you over and over again, until you literally can't do it wrong. And by reviewing the
CD the next day and the next day and the next day for a solid month, you'll soon see that you are improving by
QUANTUM LEAPS!

If you were a college football star, would you pay the coach of your favorite pro team for a private lesson? (If it was legal, that is...)

You bet you would -- you would pay him $5000. or $10,000. or lots more for the privilege of learning the top secrets in your field. And you would pay all expenses to get there, too, and take time out of your schedule to do it. You know you would. No doubt about it.

Well, I come to you for a whole lot less than that! You have no transportation costs -- no time off work -- and you can
play me over and over and over again anytime you want!

The tuition on each individual
CD is $39. (plus shipping) because of the intense, specialized nature of the contents. I would have paid $100. per
CD back when I was learning, if CD's like this were available, which of course they weren't. So if you buy each
audio CD for the next 3 years at $39. per CD, it will cost you only $1620. (I say "only", because before you say "that sounds high", think about the kind of car you can buy for $1602., and compare the satisfaction you will get from an old junker as over against REAL PROGRESS and learning in your favorite field -- music -- doesn't sound so high now, does it?)

Here are the 36 "Pro Secrets" I will be revealing and drilling you on:

1st Month:Straddles --We will learn what a straddle is, then work on 3 note straddles on all 12 major chords, all 12 minor chords, all 12 augmented and diminished chords, then take up 4-note straddles using 7ths, then 6ths, then 9ths. We will drill, drill, drill on notes, fingering, pedaling -- everything necessary to make an
exciting straddle sound. (Not 1 piano player in a hundred
even knows about straddles!)

2nd Month: 2-1 and 3-1 Breakups -- We will practice fills in all keys using these broken chords. They are easy, once you know how, but most pianists go a lifetime without knowing how! (You'll
LOVE triplet 2-1's!)

3rd
Month: Waterfall Chords
-- Extremely rapid descending chordal runs that give the impression
of a cascading rush of water, like a waterfall. We will learn them on all
the basic chords first, then add the extensions, such as 6ths, etc.

4th
Month: Tremolo-Fired Runs
-- These a super-fast runs that shoot up the keyboard and back down
like a lightning bolt, but they are "launched" by a tremolo -- a
"shaking" of a chord. One solid hour of drills on these runs in
all keys. Practice them for an hour for 30 days and your friends might
just start calling you "lightning fingers."

5th
Month: Half-Step Slides
-- Every time you move from one chord to the next, you have the potential
for a chord substitution through the simple use of half-step slides. You
can slide up, or you can slide down, or even both, if you have the time. This
one element alone can make your piano playing ever so much more
professional!

6th
Month: Suspensions -- A great deal of
contemporary music called "fusion"
is based on suspensions, so if you want to understand current music, you
really need to know suspensions inside out. Bach used them a lot in his
music, too, so they're not exactly new. We'll learn them in all keys, and
learn when to use them to create interest.

7th
Month: Chord Substitutions -- There are 3
basic keys to chord substitutions, but the application of these keys takes
a lifetime of experimentation. In this hour, we'll do more
substitutions than the average person does in an entire lifetime!

8th
Month:Voicing in 4ths
-- We'll take up the whole matter of "voicing"
a chord, then learn how to voice in 4ths rather than in 3rds for a
"pro sound". (Have you ever compared your chords to the chords
of a top pro? Chances are, you are playing the same notes, but the way the
pro "voices" them on the keyboard makes a tremendous
difference in the sound.)

9th
Month: Turnarounds
-- Turnarounds are chord
progressions that occur at the end of phrases
to keep the interest level up -- so the song doesn't "sag"
between phrases. You'll learn a half-dozen turnarounds that will keep you
busy for years applying them to all kinds of songs -- popular, gospel,
standards.

10th
Month: Introductions
-- We'll learn how to put a "front
door" on a song that is
both beautiful and useful. We'll learn the different functions of an intro
and what's suitable for different styles.

11th
Month: Endings --
There are some marvelous "stock
endings" you can memorize,
then use on most any song. We'll learn those, but also learn how to "tailor
make" an ending for a particular song by recapitulating the theme
in a "familiar echo."

12th
Month: Transposing --
Of the 3 ways to transpose, you will have a favorite -- one way will seem
easier than the others to you. But we'll learn all 3 ways, and we
will transpose both melodies and chords in all keys. But after you pick
your favorite way of transposing, you can focus on that method -- you
don't really need to use all 3.

13th
Month: Modulating
-- Different than transposing, this is the process of getting from one
key to another key smoothly, without anyone hardly noticing the
change. Once you understand the basic principle, it is very easy to do.

14th
Month: Altering a Melody To Create a
New Melody -- Did you know that many
of the best pianists do exactly this when they "improvise"?
People think they are making things up out of their head, when really they
are playing the existing melody inverted, contorted, inside-out,
compressed, and so on. We'll learn how to do this and apply it to many
songs.

15th
Month: Inversions
-- Turning chords upside down in lighting-flash speed is one of the
keys to a "pro sound." Not just triads, but extended
chords, such as 6/9 chords and others. We'll drill, drill, drill on the
common chords, then drill even harder on the advanced chords.

16th
Month -- Creating Original Chord
Progressions -- The boys and the
girls are separated from the men and the women when it comes to ORIGINAL
chord progressions. The stamp of professionalism is on anyone
who can come up with a truly original progressions. But it's not that
hard, and on this one hour session we'll drill over and over again on the
essentials of a creative and fresh approach to progressions.

17th
Month: Echoes -- Rhythmic, Melodic,
& Harmonic -- Probably the
simplest way to improve your playing dramatically is through the use of
echoes. Almost no one uses them as much as they could be used --
and I have noticed recently that the masters such as Mozart, Bach, Chopin,
Beethoven, etc. use them extensively -- much more than the average
pianist -- does that tell you something? We'll show how to use them
to build continuity in the rhythm, melody, and harmony of most any song.

18th
Month: Touch
-- Have you ever seen a pianist who had a nice "touch"? What
does that mean? How can YOU get it? It has to do with fundamentals, but
more than that, it has to do with mind-set -- your way of thinking
about the FLOW of the music. We'll explore this in depth as we help
you get smooth!

19th
Month: TheII7 to V7
Chord Progression -- This chord progressions -- where the II7 chord
moves to the V7 chord -- is critical to your success as a pianist. Why? Because
it is like your knee or your elbow -- it is the joint or hinge that turns
the music.We'll learn why, then how to do it smoothly, in all
12 keys and all 12 minor keys as well.

20th
Month:Latin-American Rhythms -- Would you
like to get a handle on the favorite Latin-American rhythms from down
South -- including the Bossa Nova, the Samba, the
Beguine, the
Bolero, etc.? You won't get great in a month's time, but you'll
understand them and have a start on them.

21st
Month: Locked-Hands Style -- This is a complex
style used by the jazz greats that takes a great deal of time
to master. What we're going to do is take a simple melody, and have you MASTER
this style on that one tune through much repetition and drills. You can
then go on to apply it to more complex tunes.

22nd
Month: The "Orchestral" Style -- This
is a marvelous,
orchestral style,and we're going to focus on just this one
style for an hour and see what makes it tick, then apply it to a song. At
the end of an hour you won't sound great (sorry!), but you'll
understand how you eventually can approximate the sound.

23rd
Month: Two-Handed Arps: "The
Flowing River of Sound!"--
When you are able to arpeggiate chords with both hands at the same time,
and those chords include 7ths and 9ths, you have a "flowing
river" of sound. Few pianists can do this, and fewer can go up
with one hand while going down with the other (contrary motion). We'll
learn exactly how to do this, then by listening and playing along with the
tape for the next few weeks, you'll actually begin to get the feel and the
sound of it!

24th
Month: Parallelisms
-- We will investigate the use of parallel chords, parallel intervals, and
so on. Some of the most interesting sounds that pros get come from
parallelisms of various sorts. (Most piano players don't know they exist.
Ask a piano playing friend about parallelisms, then get ready for a
blank stare!)

25th
Month: Ragtime Techniques
-- Actually, we're going to focus on just 3 ragtime techniques, and
drill over and over on these 3 in various situations. A mastery of
these 3 techniques will allow you to play most any song in ragtime style,
but not advanced ragtime.

26th
Month: Polytonality &
Superimposition -- How to play with two
tonal centers at once, for either a single chord, or a phrase, or even
an entire song. It creates a "dream-like" feel that
nobody but the top pros know how to create.

27th
Month: The
"Delay-Catch-Up" Technique
-- We're going to learn how to fall behind the beat, then catch up, and
vice-versa. Why? Because knowing how to do so marks you as one of a special
breed of pianist. VERY effective when an exclusive style is desired!

28th
Month: Slash/Chords
-- It's easy to learn how to read "slash/chords" (such as
Gm7/F), but we're not only going to learn how to read them, but
also how to create them. We enlarge our world of chords tremendously
when we learn to "re-root" a chord!

29th
Month: Counter-Melodies
-- Bach was the master of counter-melodies, sometimes having 4 at a time!
(See his 4-part inventions for proof.) We won't go that far, but we will
learn how to create one melody which will run counter to the main
theme, adding a wonderful fullness to any song!

30th
Month: Western Sounds
-- We will drill for a solid hour on the elements of a country-western
sound. After a month of this, you'll even talk with a twang!

31st
Month: Gospel Sounds-- I hate to use the word "gospel" in the sense, but there is a distinctive
sound which is termed "gospel", and it is this sound which
we will learn to emulate during this month.

32nd
Month: The 12-Bar Blues --
We'll learn the formula for creating the blues, then learn it in all 12
keys. We'll also drill on "blue notes" and the chord
substitutions that make for the blues sound.

33rd
Month:Passing Tones-- Passing tones are any tones that are not in the chord, but "pass
through" the chord to create a sensation of movement.
We'll learn to use passing 9ths, 7ths, 6ths, and passing 3rds in
half-steps.

34th
Month: Question-Answer Techniques
-- Do you remember the techniques used in some churches where the Pastor
says something, then the congregation responds, and back and forth it
goes? We'll, the same thing can be done in music to create some of the
most creatively spontaneous sounds you have ever heard!

35th
Month:Far-Out Harmonies-- How and where to use the really far-out sounds such as sharp
11ths, flat 9ths, flat 10ths, flat 5ths with a dominant 7th, and so
on. Your head will be swimming for a few days, but when it gets into your
fingers, your listeners' ears will be reeling!

36th
Month:Syncopation
-- How to create accents where they normally don't fall. How to play with
a heavy "back-beat" feel. Advanced rhythmic
concepts of all sorts.

Well,
there you have the program for the next three years. I
have packed thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of
instruction and drilling into these 36 audio CD's.
If such things were available back when I was learning, I would have paid at
least $100. per secret to learn these techniques -- but of course they
weren't available. But I have priced them at just $39. per Pro Secret -- that's
$1404. for the full 3-year course. I think you'll agree you
could NEVER get pro lessons like this for anywhere near that.

Pro Secrets 1-36:

(These are
audio CD's -- not DVD videos.)

There are two ways you can order Pro Secrets:

You can order
one CD drill at a time for $39. plus shipping, or

You can order
them shipped all at once and save a fortune.

If you will subscribe now for the entire series -- 3 years -- and allow us to ship the entire 3 year series to you NOW all at once in a huge 3 ring binder with
CD holders for all 36 CD's and the 36 Pro Secrets cards which go with each CD (saving us hundreds of dollars in bookkeeping, duplicating, labeling, handling, etc. costs!) you can get the entire series for $697. instead of the $1404.
plus shipping it
would cost if we mailed you one each month -- which figures out
to something like $19. per
CD (about 69 cents a day!) -- but
only when you order them all at once and we ship them all at once via UPS insured.

I'll look forward to hearing from you!

Cordially,

Duane

Now...

You can get "Pro Secrets!"
at less than half the price it would cost if you ordered them one by one:

$697.instead of the regular one-at-a-time tuition -- $1404.

but onlyif you allow us to ship the entire series to youall at once!

YES! "I want "Pro Secrets"shipped all at once for $697.

Plus...I'll include at no extra
charge a"Summary DVD video" -- so you can
SEE my hands and fingering close up
-- as I
summarize the 36 techniques!